Covid-19

Blizzard said:
Yeah, fuck him....not that I have a lot of interest in standing in line for it but it should go to our at risk populations first. No question.
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I'm actually OK with the concept as it is explained in the article (below). The way I understand it, the producing nation keeps enough on hand to establish herd immunity, then it is exported to the rest of the world. This is practicality, not ethics to me. We get our rate of transmission down, then we help the rest of the world. Because if we don't help the rest of the world, guess what? That shit's coming right back here. Plus, we need the world healthy to 1) buy our expensive stuff, and 2) sell us their cheap stuff.

The model allows the country that produces the vaccine to hold onto enough of a supply to reach a threshold for herd immunity ("Rt below 1"). Beyond that, the model supports distributing the vaccine internationally, which means giving away or selling doses of the vaccine before it's available to every citizen in that country, Emanuel explained to Scientific American.
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Marauder06 said:
I'm actually OK with the concept as it is explained in the article (below). The way I understand it, the producing nation keeps enough on hand to establish herd immunity, then it is exported to the rest of the world. This is practicality, not ethics to me. We get our rate of transmission down, then we help the rest of the world. Because if we don't help the rest of the world, guess what? That shit's coming right back here. Plus, we need the world healthy to 1) buy our expensive stuff, and 2) sell us their cheap stuff.
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OK...but fuck China. They can get their own.
 
Ooh-Rah said:
I feel like I’ve seen this movie before, well actually it was a TV show (And they offed their elderly at “60”)

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Logan's Run, too.... set life expectancy at 60 or something I don't remember.

RE: Vaccine, I tell people I am not anti-vax, but I AM anti-first-in-line-for-new-untested-vaccine. I saw too many Marines and Sailors get goofed up from the vaccine du jour after 9/11.

Edited to add, just heard that we are on tap for first round of any vaccine coming out. This is my department's reaction:

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Devildoc said:
Logan's Run, too.... set life expectancy at 60 or something I don't remember.

RE: Vaccine, I tell people I am not anti-vax, but I AM anti-first-in-line-for-new-untested-vaccine. I saw too many Marines and Sailors get goofed up from the vaccine du jour after 9/11.

Edited to add, just heard that we are on tap for first round of any vaccine coming out. This is my department's reaction:

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I'm friends with a dude on the Facebook that is publicizing the fact that he signed up to be a test subject for the first round!
 
ThunderHorse said:
I'm friends with a dude on the Facebook that is publicizing the fact that he signed up to be a test subject for the first round!
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I know a few people who are in active trials, and I know several people who want to be first in line. Not me. In fact, most of my department want to be last, see what happens to the others first.

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pardus said:
R.E. @Dame s posted article

“The worst case scenario is a new pandemic, starting all over again out of Denmark,” said Kare Molbak, director at the State Serum Institute.

This is the type of scenario that brings the coronavirus into 1918 influenza league. A tad concerning to read this.
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Why? If lethality doesn't change, then it is just another flu.
Cookie_ said:
I forget his name off the top of my head, but I remember the one epidemiologist on Rogan months ago saying (paraphrasing here) "A two week or so lockdown could kill this, if you managed 100% compliance, which is a Herculean task to get people to do."
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Impossible, Hospitals, Police,Firemen (and a shit ton of others) will have to travel.
Devildoc said:
The more you could make this happen, theoretically the more chance of eradication. You can't even get a single county anywhere in this country to do it, much less a state. But even then, let's say the entire country did it, Canada doesn't do it, Mexico sure as hell doesn't do it, they keep international flights coming in, it starts spreading all over again, so yes, every country would have to do it.
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El Paso is red again, they go red after every major holiday. They put a statement out saying it's coming from bars and resteraunts, with a little blurb about travel to/from Mexico. Wait! WHAT! Mexico?
They seriously down play any cross-border stuff, and also refuse to comment on Mexicans coming here (El paso, Rio Grande Valley) for treatment.
Marauder06 said:
I'm actually OK with the concept as it is explained in the article (below). The way I understand it, the producing nation keeps enough on hand to establish herd immunity, then it is exported to the rest of the world. This is practicality, not ethics to me. We get our rate of transmission down, then we help the rest of the world. Because if we don't help the rest of the world, guess what? That shit's coming right back here. Plus, we need the world healthy to 1) buy our expensive stuff, and 2) sell us their cheap stuff.
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Go ahead and pass it out to everyone but China, fuck China. Though I suspect China Joe will make sure his overlords get the first batch (funny if those batches were defective)
Devildoc said:
Logan's Run, too.... set life expectancy at 60 or something I don't remember.

RE: Vaccine, I tell people I am not anti-vax, but I AM anti-first-in-line-for-new-untested-vaccine. I saw too many Marines and Sailors get goofed up from the vaccine du jour after 9/11.

Edited to add, just heard that we are on tap for first round of any vaccine coming out. This is my department's reaction:

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Same for me, I think Anthrax vaccines seriosly fucked me over.
ThunderHorse said:
I'm friends with a dude on the Facebook that is publicizing the fact that he signed up to be a test subject for the first round!
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Good for him, seriously. Hope it works out.
 
DA SWO said:
El Paso is red again, they go red after every major holiday. They put a statement out saying it's coming from bars and resteraunts, with a little blurb about travel to/from Mexico. Wait! WHAT! Mexico?
They seriously down play any cross-border stuff, and also refuse to comment on Mexicans coming here (El paso, Rio Grande Valley) for treatment.
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Yeah that stuff annoys me after having lived there. Beto O'Rourke and his clown show that run the local media need to get gagged.

The County Judge is also an idiot, to the point where the AG sent a letter to the Mayor telling him the Judge's Executive order was unlawful and to not enforce anything. I don't know how bars could be responsible for anything there since most of the restaurants and bars never went back to seating people even when they weren't dark red.

Oh great, the continued fear porn from the Bezos Mouthpiece Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/11/12/covid-social-gatherings/

A record-breaking surge in U.S. coronavirus cases is being driven to a significant degree by casual occasions that may feel deceptively safe, officials and scientists warn — dinner parties, game nights, sleepovers and carpools.
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